Movement Strategy/Recommendations/Iteration 3/Prioritize Topics for Impact/de
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This is an archive for draft recommendations. Visit Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2018-20/Recommendations to read the final recommendations. |
Verbindung zu anderen Empfehlungen
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This recommendation proposes the idea of ascertaining priority regarding topicals needs according to varying contexts. It is supported by the recommendations: ‘Evaluate, Iterate and Adapt’, ‘Promote Sustainability and Resilience’ and ‘Create Cultural Change for Inclusive Communities’. |
Dafür müssen wir dokumentieren und verstehen, wie wir das Leben der Wissensnutzenden beeinflussen, Initiativen und Inhaltsbereiche priorisieren, um diese Wirkung zu maximieren, und die Fähigkeit aufbauen, sie bei Bedarf zu schützen. Dieser Wechsel erfordert eine Transformation unserer Kultur und unserer Praktiken, wie wir die Inhalte bewerten, sowie die Entwicklung von Hilfsmitteln.
Warum?
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Our ultimate reason for curating and sharing knowledge is to empower people to improve their lives. Yet, we do little to understand when and how that happens.[2] Without understanding why people need the knowledge we curate, and how well we are helping them to succeed at those goals, we cannot prioritize how to make our content accessible, understandable, and useful for them.[3] We cannot compare initiatives focusing on different articles or areas of content. But, we know some topics can provide much more personal and societal value to knowledge consumers and are relevant to a much larger audience. We lack the detailed know-how and tooling to prioritize processes for that insight. A solid understanding of how our content is used and abused, and a willingness to act on it, is necessary for staying relevant in a dynamic technological and social environment,[4] where information is consumed universally, and adversaries ranging from lone spammers to nation-states are interested in distorting it or preventing access.[5] Failure to emphasize our impact and relevance discounts the potential of free knowledge and can have repercussions on the sustainability of the Movement. By ignoring those differences when we prioritize our work, we are not fully recognizing the impact we could have, nor actively managing the responsibility it brings. |
Wie?
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To prioritize efforts on topics aiming at having an impact on the world, we recommend an approach based on several actions. The evaluation of our impact must include assessment of how well we support knowledge equity so we can focus our efforts on the communities that have been left out by structures of power and privilege,[6] and address global challenges (such as those described in the Sustainable Development Goals).[7] At the same time, we must acknowledge the human and financial sustainability of the Movement as a necessary prerequisite to long-term impact (even if priorities differ in the short term). Remembering that we are in it for the long haul, strategic choices that enable or protect future impact must be prioritized over immediate impact. Furthermore, we need to respect our long-standing principles of welcoming everyone who shares our vision of free knowledge, and their free will to contribute to any topic while respecting content neutrality guidelines.[8] The ability for a participant to bring their knowledge to the world is empowering. We must continue to support editorial control and opening new pathways for all stakeholders to prioritize content according to their specific wants and needs. To better understand how we empower people to improve their lives, we must invest more into research on how our content gets used (and misused). To be able to evaluate it at scale, we need to build human and technical capacity for measuring impact.[9] That includes measuring the coverage, quality and verifiability of content, detecting threats to it with significant potential for real-world harm (such as misinformation or scams),[10] and measuring the public’s trust in our content and their ability to access and understand it.[11] Prioritizing topics[12] or content with larger impact requires special focus on certain topics, tracking their completion, dissemination, and impact. For this, we must change our practices and improve metrics, reporting, evaluation, prioritization, advocacy, and partnership practices so that they can help differentiate between different areas of content based on their capacity for world impact.[13] We also need to make sure that our volunteers have the time to work on content by supporting them in administrative and organizational tasks that compete for their free time. We must identify the high-impact areas where content is missing or insufficient, and look for ways to fill the gaps.[14] This involves community initiatives, outreach, grants and other funding, partnerships, and exploring future technology trends such as artificial intelligence and machine learning.[15] In environments where both editors and content are missing (or content is known to be biased), advocacy and capacity building about content creation and neutral writing must be a priority. Regional support structures could play a pivotal role in this. |
- Recherchen und Analyse zur Bereitstellung einer klaren Liste von Themen, die die größten Auswirkungen auf die Welt und das Leben der Wissensnutzenden haben.[16]
- Definition von Werkzeuge und Fachwissen, die zur detaillierten Bewertung[17] und Nachverfolgung von Inhalten und ihrer potenziellen und tatsächlichen Auswirkungen erforderlich sind.
- Diskussionen organisieren, um das gemeinsame Verständnis der verschiedenen Interessensgruppen der Bewegung über die Auswirkungen und die Prinzipien zu verbessern sowie die Möglichkeiten, diese zu messen.[18]
- Einschätzung der geopolitischen Risiken, die Auswirkungen auf unsere Inhalte in verschiedenen Projekten haben, um die Auswirkungen von falschen Informationen zu minimieren.[19]
- Unterstützung von Freiwilligen bei den Aktivitäten, die einen hohen Wirkungsgrad haben, sich aber auf die Zeit auswirken, die für die Erstellung von Inhalten aufgewendet werden kann, etwa Kapazitätsentwicklung und Organisation der Gemeinschaft.[20]
- Entwicklung von Prozessen und Beziehungen zur Zusammenarbeit mit spezialisierten Mitwirkenden, die bei der Priorisierung von Themen helfen können.[21]